Police arrest man for exposing himself to teen on bus

Seattle police arrested a man Wednesday evening they’d been looking for since early June in an indecent exposure case that happened on a Metro bus.

The incident occurred the evening of June 3 when a 15-year-old girl and a 26-year-old man boarded a bus in the area of 15th Avenue Southwest and Southwest 102nd Street, according to police reports.

The man sat across the aisle from the girl. When she heard strange noises coming from his direction, she saw that he was masturbating. He then tried to ask her out on a date, she told police.

The girl managed to take a photo of the man before he left the bus.

Police identified the man and issued a bulletin for officers to be on the lookout for him.

Wednesday evening, two King County Sheriff’s detectives found the man near 15th Avenue Southwest and Southwest Roxbury Street. Seattle police responded to the scene and booked the man into King County Jail for investigation of indecent exposure.